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John Cage Presentation

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John Cage 1912-1992

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Background Desired Work Was Radically Different From The Music of His Time. Studied at Pamona College and Later UCLA. Cage Believed He Had No Feeling For Harmony, Colleagues Believed It Would Have Made It Impossible For Him To Write Music. Cage Worked to Investigate How Music Composed Through Chance Procedures Could Become Something Beautiful.

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Early Experiments Involved Altering Standard Instruments. Put Screws and Plates Between Piano Strings. Used Radio Broadcasts, Shells, Water For Other Pieces.

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Imaginary Landscape No. 1 One of the Earliest Electro-Acoustic Works Ever Composed. Performed With 2 Phono Turntables, Frequency Recordings, Cymbal, and Muted Piano. First of 5 Imaginary Landscapes Done By Cage. Written in 1939 at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA.

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4’33” Conceived between 1947-1948 Cage Wished For Listeners to Experience the Sounds Around Them During the Performance. Piece Entirely Silent, Separated into 3 Movements. Example of Automaticism, Piece Separated From Any Social Connections. Composer and Artist Removed From Process of Creation.